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Citizen and self in ancient Greece : individuals performing justice and the law /
This study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary, and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who perf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary, and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic, and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades, and Socrates' moral individualism. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 592 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-575) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511219115 0511219113 9780511221101 051122110X 0511220618 9780511220616 9780511497902 0511497903 1280480041 9781280480041 1107164133 9781107164130 0511316941 9780511316944 0511219792 9780511219795 9781107407527 1107407524 |